Improvement in commercial registers



C. D. WEEKS.

Commercial Registers.

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UNITED STATES PATENT QFFICE.

CALEB D. \VEEKS, OF NEW YORK, N.

IMPROVEMENT IN COMMERCIAL REGISTERS.

Specification formingpart of Letters Patent No. 151,181, dated May 19,1874; application filed February 26, 1874.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, CALEB D. W'nnns, of the city, county, and State ofNew York, have invented a new and Improved Commercial Register; and I dohereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exactdescription of the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawingforming a part of this specification, in which Figure 1 is a front, andFig. 2 is a sectional, elevation of recorder. Fig. 3 is a rear elevationand view of counter. Fig. 4 is a perspective view offend-tube, slide,and case attached together. Fig. 5 is a longitudinal sectional elevationof the case and slide.

The invention relates toan automatic detective or means whereby thevarious amounts of cash received for sales of goods by clerks orcashiers in mercantile houses, restaurants, or analogous places may beduly recorded, registered, or checked o'lf asthey occur, the same beingdone without increase of clerical force.

The invention will first be fully described, and then pointed out in theclaim. 7

A represents a counter, under which is ar ranged, marked, or notatedknobs or buttons a, connected, by cords or other flexible devices, withrods 1) of the slides B, arranged in a case, 0, in rear of the counter.These slides B consist of a rectangular tube closed at both ends, andhaving corresponding apertures b b on parallel sides, but not oppositeto each other. These slides B move in a guide-tube, G, which is open atboth ends,

and has opposite side openings 0 0 directly under supply-chambers l),which are located over the receiving-chambers G that empty into aconducting-tube, E, that leads into a lock-box, F. One of the knobs isconnected with a cord, 0 that operates a tilting bottom, g, of thereceiving-chambers Gr, while the other, 11 acts upon the slides 13. Eachof the supply-chambers is provided with a spiral channel -way leadingfrom top to bottom.

thereof, which serves to bring the balls gradually, and one at a time,directly to the opening in the slide B, and also forms a safe guardagainst the balls being extracted from the chamber at the top thereof.These sup ply-chambers are filled with ball-counters suitably marked,as, for example, with the numbers 5,10, 15, 25, 50, &e.; or, in lieu ofthese marks, the amounts may be determined by different colored balls,the green in dicating, say, five cents, the yellow ten, the bluefifteen, and so on. These amounts will, of course, be formed to suit thebusiness in which the register is to be employed.

The operation is as 'follows: It, for instance, a clerk has soldsomething to the one ball, while the supply-chambers D have a transversearea sufliciently small to prevent one ball from passing another, and tocompel their delivery one by one. YVhen the slide B is moved by force,applied to one of the knobs or buttons, the bottom hole is brought overa chamber, Gr, while the end of supplychambers D is covered. A ball isthen dropped into one of the chambers (i, while as soon as the slide isretracted by its spring the upper hole is brought under asupply-chamber, D, to receive another ball in readiness for future use.

I propose to use, in connection with the knob, a gong so connected thatevery time a knob is pulled it will sound an alarm.

At the end of the day the cash in the money-drawer should correspondwith the counters in the lock-box.

This will not only be a very effective check upon the transactions ofthe clerks, but the mode of settlement, being understood andanticipated, will. deter them from yielding to tcn'iptation.

Having thus described my invention, what conducting tube E, tiltingbottom g, cords I claim is b b, and lock-box F, all combined as and forThe commercial register herein described, the purpose specified.

consistin essentially of a series of supply- 1 T T chamber; 1), eachhaving a spiral ehanncl- CAL UL LERb' way extending from top to bottomthereof, a 'itnesses:

series of oppositely-perforated guide-tubes, O. SEDGWIGK,

(i. slide-tubes 13, reeeiving-chambers G, the '1. 13. MOSIIER.

